On the recordJanuary 1, 1845
You are loosed from your moorings, and are free; I am fast in my chains, and am a slave!
Said by
Frederick Douglass
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gutenberg.orgYou are loosed from your moorings, and are free; I am fast in my chains, and am a slave!
In a soliloquy addressed to the ships on the Chesapeake Bay, Douglass laments his enslaved condition in contrast to their freedom.
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